The Nature of the Christian : a Reflection
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D. Vincent Palmer (M.R.E., Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary) is a lecturer in Bible and Theology at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, Kingston, Jamaica. The question "What is man?" still remains .I..o~e of the most difficult amongst social scientists today. To ask about the fundamerital character of the believer only compounds the difficulty. With an ever increasing post-modem outlook even biblical scholars are beginning to doubt whether the foregoing questions can be answered in any meaningful way. 1 Notwithstanding the above uneasiness, my purpose in this article is to attempt a· working defmition of the believer in Christ in the light of the Scriptures, with a little help from the discipline· of psychology in order to better understand a certain area of Christian experience over which there is little agreement in Christian circles. The need to constantly strive for a better understanding of man is underscored by Cosgrove when he writes:
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